Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
George Washington
Standard Name: Washington, George
Used Form: General Washington
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anne Bannerman | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Cook | Stock patriotic attitudes are voiced in The Gallant English Tar, and The Banner of Union, verging on the jingoistic in We'll Stand to our Guns and Hurrah! for our Riflemen! Clearly no coherent... |
politics | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | EGF
, as an American patriot married to a British officer, now found her political position almost untenable. She seems to have hoped to become a mediator between the two sides, though she made herself... |
Cultural formation | Mary Gawthorpe | By the end of her life MG
had lived longer in the USA than in Britain. In the context of her American incarnation, she writes of the capacity to shift from one national viewpoint... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | CM
stayed ten days with George Washington
at his estate of Mount Vernon, Virginia. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 127 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Macaulay | |
Birth | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
was born on George Washington
's birthday in Rockland, a small town in Maine, the eldest of three sisters. American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 18 |
Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | |
Dedications | Sarah Wentworth Morton | She had written once already about this Boston landmark. She dedicated this later poem, an ambitious attempt at a national epic, to the Citizen-Soldiers who fought for Washington
and Freedom. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press. 63 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Wentworth Morton | These poems include political subject-matter, for instance in the celebratory Ode to the President, On his visiting the Northern States. This addresses Washington
as Columbia's guardian God, Smith, Elihu Hubbard, editor. American Poems, Selected and Original. Collier and Buel. 180 |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | |
Performance of text | Judith Sargent Murray | An ode by JSM
on the death of George Washington
was sung at the First Universal Church, Boston. Hymns and Odes, Composed on the Death of Gen. George Washington. Charles Peirce. 10-11 |
Publishing | Judith Sargent Murray | The set was dedicated to John Adams
, and subscribers included the dedicatee, many of the author's relations, Sarah Wentworth Morton
and her husband
, Susanna Haswell Rowson
, and George
and Martha Washington
.... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
Reception | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | A measure of her success as a writer is the fact that in 1834 CMS
was one of only two women (the other was Martha Washington
) chosen for inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery... |
Timeline
Early 1768: The colony of Virginia executed some slaves...
National or international item
Early 1768
The colony of Virginia executed some slaves suspected of conspir[ing] to poison their overseers, and set their decapitated heads on display above the court house at Alexandria.
15 June 1775: George Washington was selected by the American...
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15 June 1775
George Washington
was selected by the American Congress
to command all the continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defense of American liberty.
November 1775: Lord Dunmore, British governor of Virginia,...
National or international item
November 1775
Lord Dunmore
, British governor of Virginia, proclaimed that slaves deserting their masters to fight for the British would be rewarded with freedom.
2 January 1783: The Daily Advertiser printed a spoof account...
Building item
2 January 1783
The Daily Advertiser printed a spoof account that George Washington
was really a cross-dressed woman, on the supposed model of the chevalier d'Éon .
1790: US President George Washington's dentist,...
Building item
1790
US President George Washington
's dentist, John Greenwood
, invented the first dental drill.
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